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Paul Dino
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At one point, Paul Dino Bertuccini had decided to become a barber. In the late '50s he started a band called The Nite Caps, adopted the shortened professional name Paul Dino, and before long the job of singing an assortment of songs in nightclubs won out over warbling "Shave and a Haircut" a couple dozen times a day. Paul had learned to play several instruments during high school including piano, saxophone and drums; he even became quite the accordion assimilator. No word on whether he was ever proficient with a pair of scissors. Songwriting was a passion as well and he began making regular excursions into New York City to knock on the doors of the various music publishing houses. He made overtures to some of the record labels too, but they didn't seem interested. After more than a year of attempts, he got his foot in the door at a very small company putting out records on the Addit and Promo labels. Bill Lasley had been in the record business for several years, scoring with The Danleers ("One Summer Night") in 1958 while he was running the short-lived Amp 3 label. Working for Addit/Promo in '60, which had recently racked up a top ten hit with the Promo single "A Million to One" by Jimmy Charles, he granted Dino enough time for a quick audition and decided to give him a shot. Struggling R&B producer George Butcher was hired to oversee the session. Dino recorded three songs he had written, but they wanted a fourth. An impromptu jam session commenced with the guitarist launch
